Weddingbee Blog

In my last post I talked about how Mr. Glasses and I have been discussing where we are moving to in October.

Well, we’ve decided. We are heading to the United States! I am so thankful to Mr. G. He is sacrificing a lot for me. I let him know that the U.S. isn’t a prison sentence, that we can visit England as often as possible, and if he was unhappy in the U.S. we could move to his home country.

So now that we have that settled, we can really start thinking about a wedding ceremony (along with a billion other things!). But we’ve had a BIG change of plans and we are going to do something a little crazy.

See, Mr. G needs a visa to come to the U.S., and I’m sure everyone knows what a nightmare that can be. The K1 fiance visa takes eight months, costs almost $2,000, and has a billion steps to it. We’ve found a certain type of visa called the DCF for expats living abroad that cuts the time and money of a K1 visa in half. Amazing and a miracle, eh?

There are two requirements for the DCF visa: one, the couple must have lived in the foreign country they are applying in for more than six months (we’ve been living here for almost three years), and two, the applicants must already be married. So we are gettin’ married. Soon. At the government office in our ward! We are going to try to keep it as close to a paper marriage as possible, so we can have a grand old renewal ceremony in the United States.

I’m an American getting married to a Brit real soon here in Tokyo.

Planning a renewal backyard wedding ceremony for the United States from Japan.

On verrrrrrry little money.

I haven’t ever explored what goes down for a vow renewal ceremony because I always thought we were going to have a “real wedding.” Since we are keeping our marriage here in Tokyo as minimal as possible, we can:

• Say our vows
• Exchange rings
• Have dinner/drinks/cake with family and friends and celebrate!

I was also thinking I’d save changing my name till we got to the U.S., so I could really be Mrs. Glasses for the first time at our ceremony. Even though we’ll already be married, I think our ceremony will be really special! I am absolutely not trippin’ because I am ready to be married to Mr. G. Sometimes I feel like we already are (not in a bad way), so this seems completely natural to me. It’ll be a bit sad not having all our peeps around when we sign the papers, but I know we’ll have an amazing time at the ceremony in October. Let’s do this!

Have you had a drastic change in your wedding plans? Anything that turned your vision upside down?